âWhen I looked up, the pistol was in my face. I hear the words ââAllahu akbarââ and the pistol went âclickâ,â Mr Brewer told a court in Frankfurt.

âHe was looking to kill us, he had hate in his eyes.â

Uka, a Muslim, has admitted the attack in March, which wounded two other airmen, claiming he was radicalised by âlying propagandaâ.

At the trial’s opening, Uka had said that the night before the attack he had seen a video on Facebook that purported to show American soldiers raping a teenage Muslim girl. It turned out to be a scene from the 2007 anti-war Brian De Palma film Redacted, taken out of context.